{"id":337269,"date":"2026-09-03T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337269\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:27:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-nypd-officer-accidentally-shoots-himself-while-off-duty-in-kingsbridge-heights-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337269\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Nypd Officer Accidentally Shoots Himself While Off Duty In Kingsbridge Heights Sources Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An NYPD officer accidentally shot himself in the leg while off-duty in Kingsbridge Heights, police sources say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It happened on Bailey Avenue near Van Cortlandt Avenue West just after 2 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Citizen app footage from the scene shows the 33-year-old man being held up by paramedics as they walk him out of a home and into an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says the officer was rushed to Jacobi Hospital, where he is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Additional details surrounding the circumstances of the accidental discharge were not immediately known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYPD officer accidentally shot himself in the leg while off-duty in Kingsbridge Heights, police sources say. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-337269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}